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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

First mortgages bought and sold at No 1le
NTopeka ave. 1906
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22

sessed young man, muttering something
about previous engagement made a hasty
exit, leaving the Doctor and his ward alone
together.
Silent and distract, and utterly unlike the
happy young girl wLo was accustomed 70
greet him With her brightest smile, Doris
stood with downcast ewes seemingly intent
on studying the colors on her palette
Now his nephew's fr1gmentary speech
had completely upset Doctor Blake-if
may use the homely simiie He had known
for some time that Paul had persistently
haunted Doris studio to the sc lndal OF Mrs.
Mack, and his own secret uneasiness But
that matters had gone so Ear he never
dreamed
Yet, being brave man, DR. Blake crushed
down his rebellious feelings He had come
on mission Of peace. A little ytiaes,e might
be advisable, for impulsive Doris was not
apt TO listen patiently when Mrs Mack,
whom she exceedingly disliked, was the
topic Perhaps he had better begin BY
mentioning the invitation that morning re-
eeiyed and accepted for himself and Doris
TO eat their \ W Years dinner with the
Marstons Thus he could lead up 10 the
topic desired by slow degrees
Il suppose Doris" said the Doctor, bre ak
ing an awkward silence. ''that-e'r-Mrs.
Mack has told you we are engaged"
''She has Just given me tG understand so
yes" coldly interrupted Doris
This was not encouraging. He would beat
about the bush no longer but mention his
errand at once.
sAs you know, DORIS. again began DR.
Black, nervously clearing his throat, Mrs
Mack Is most excellent housekeeper, and
wen
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ADvICEs received on the 10Th in san Fran
cisco state that Ching Chow and ten other
populous cities in the province of Honau,
China. were destroyed on the night of Sep
TENDER - last by the bursting of the banks
of the Yellow river former rich plain Of
great extent being now ten to thirty feet
under water. Thousands of lives were
lost, and millions of people We're reported
naked and starving The catastrophe was
said to be the most appalling occurrence of
modern times
EIGHr men were killed and forty
wounded in a recent election riot at
Js.nauive. Mex The ballOt-bOxes we're de-
slrOyed and the old mayor will hC,d over.
FROM January | to November 80 of this
year the total number of immigrants arriv-
ing in Canada was 1873, l62 as against 3O9,-
492 the corresponding period OF the year
preceding.
A TRAIN went through a bridge on the
IntercolOnial road on the 18th near Cara
guette y b and eight men were killed.
ADvICEs of the 18th from st Petersburg
say that there has been a conflict in Syria
between Bedouins and Druses, in which the
latter had 100 killed and 500 wounded.
The steamer Etruria, which arrived on
the 18th in Queenstown from New York.
made the trip in six days and two hours,
which is the fastest time on record
JOSEPH KIDD & Sons, of Dublin, Ont, gen
eral store-keepers. failed ON 10th for $3.50,
600
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
LATER.

The Manitoba legislature is summoned to
meet January IL.
THE gopher bounties paid the present year
- Dakota Co, Mimi, Is =, 900.
THE trial of Hopkins, of Fidelity Bank
fame, is postponed to Jan. TO-
By the burning of hotel al Baraza,
Mich, John Bennett, was burned 20 death.
IL political quarrel at Opelousas, Texas,
on the 10Th, pistols were used and three men
fatally hurt.
ZIoNvuLE, Boone Co., Ind, a place of
100 inhabitants, was almost totally des-
troyed by fire on the Goth.
CART. q. W. Knott, an ex-offlcer in the
English army, was drowned at Corpus
Christi, Tex, Sunday night.
Ex-SECRETAKT MANNING, who is at
Albany, y. V, was reported as very low on
the 10th. has since rallied hopefully.
TUE President has nominated stephen A.
De Wolf of Montana to be Associate JUS
tlce of the Montana Supreme Court
FoR United States Attorneyfor the district
of Alaska, the name of Whitaker NJ. Grant,
Of Iowa has been sent to the Senate.
THE Virginia legislature formally elected
John =. Barbour to succeed Mr.. Riddle
berger in the L. 5. Senate, on the 10th.
WEEPING WATER. Neb, a small town on
the Missouri Pacific K X was almost de-
strOyed by fire on the 10th. Loss $4,000,
little insurance.
SENATOR e. K. Davis has reported TO the
Senate bills to grant pensions of $500 to
the widows OF Gen. John A. Logan and
Gen Frank Z. Blair.
DAN DoHERTY. the American who shot
and killed George NJ Graham, another
American, in London. was sentenced TO
penal servltude for life.
MASY members of Congress are visiting
their homes during the holiday recess, and
among them are Senator Sabin and Rep
rssentative Wilson of Minnesota.
r. W. JORDAN, aged "A years, a real
estate dealer, committed suicide at Mime
apOlis on the Goth. owing to business re-
verses. He leaves a wife and daughter.
Owing to alternate freezing and thawing
Of mortar, the end wall OF a five-rtory build
ing at Joliet, Ill, fell Tuesday afternoon,
killing two men and inhicting mortal inJu-
ries upon three more.
CONGRESSMAN Nelson of Minnesota has
secured through the Agricult, ~ depart
ment the importation of RuSslLa spring
seed wheat for distribution in the Red
River Valley.
ELIHC GREGG, who for 80 years had been
the terror Of the border farmers of Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland,
was found dead a few days ago, on the
West Virginia mountains, with a bullet
hole in his breast.
RRPoRrs from the winter wheat growing
counties OF Texas show an increase in
acreage from 10 10 100 per cent No more
rain is needed before March and the indica-
IiOns are that the crop of ISIS Will be
double that o. this year.
REPoRTs on the morning OF the 2lst, show
hat Minnesota and Dakota were snow
sound for the first time this winter. all the
aiiroads beng more or less impeded by
riffs and q. pth of snow. The temperature
vas generally above zero.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT the American Federation of Labor
convention in Baltimore on the 14th a very
bitter feeling was manifested against the
United States Brewers Association which
was denounced as the most powerful antag-
onist that organized labor had to contend
with
SToCKNEN from the northern part OF Texas
called upon the State and Federal authori
ties on the 18th for protection against
cattIe-thleves They declared that the pub
lie land stripe was virtually in the possess
sion Of these desperadovs, and that muir
ders were Of daily occurrence
Mas FASNY HUSBANDS. living near Merid-
ian, Miss. was robbed by n negro on the
10 h. who afterwards cut out her tongue.
STORM blew down hotel at Crescent,
Cal, on the 10Th. and two persons were
killed and fourteen others badly injured
Many buildings at s.. Augustine, Fla. were
burned on the 18th, causing loss of $500
600
A CoNvESTIoS OF delegates. representing
ali the counties in Dakota, was held at
Aberdeen on the 18th and a memorial TO
Congress was adopted praying that body
10 pass an enabling act admitting Dakota
10 the Union as one State.
A FIRE in the business district of Chat
tauOoga. Tenn. destroyed property on the
I5sh valued at 500, 600
Ar the twentieth annual meeting in Chi
cagO on the i5sh OF the Freedman's Aid So
ciety Of the Methodist Church IL was shown
that in the past twenty years over one
hundred thousand HegrOes had been edu-
Gated The society has property valued at
81, 500 COO
o. the 18th the three young sons Of WILL
lam Brewer. living near Toledo. O.. were
crushsd 70 death by a tree which fell on
them
tween Little Rock aud CarrOltop, Ark. on
the I5sh and robbed the passengers of
5000 and two gold watches
AT Shelbyyil4e. Tenn. square OF bsssl-
ness build ngs was buned on the 18th
causing loss OF over 500. 600
CHkRLEs McCULLoN and Silas Malcolm on
trial at Newton. IL for the murder Of
George Bowen, were bO-h found guilty on
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
WRECKED BY THE WIND.

Five Lives Lost Through "a Cyclone In
Indian TerriIory-A Number of Persons
InJured-Liye Stock Killed and Manned,
and Much Property Des roycd.
NEW YORK, Dec 20-A Little Rock ARK
special to the Herald says: A special from
Cove, Polk County, reports that d sstruct-
i've cyclone visited Armstrong Acad-
envy, L T., Fort Washita and Green
at an early hour on Saturday morn
ing causing great destruction of prop
erty and loss of life. The following are
the casualties as far as known: Killed
French Adams United States army, Wash
tia; A. H. Il Lincoln, Washita; Henderson
Jack, Green; Two children, names un-
known. Injured-William Covington. Arm
strong Academy; Henry Wait, Washita;
Mrs Wait, Washita
A terrific rumbling sound was heard
about . O'Clock II startled the few set
tiers from Their sleep only 10 awake them
TO the horror of impending death A
heavy black cloud, funnel-shapeG, was seen
in the distance and rapidly approa ching
When about a mile north of Fort W ishita
it struck the ground and from this pc MT
south for miles the work of ruin was con-
tinued
The cyclone travelled at about the rate of
a nile minute In an instant from the
llule IL btiuCh lub tdIlL, udLl INC HOUSES IN
Fort Washita were in RUNS Light OUT
houses and dwellings were picked up and
made into kndling wood by the fury of the
wind Armstrong Academy was not great
ly injured but ranchers in the immediate
neighborhood suffered greatly.
At Green, a little hamlet SIX miles south
of Armstrong the damage was very heavy
and many persons were injured Seven
teen houses and a general ore were car
ried away bodily, while horses and cattle
within the territory covered by the storm
king were killed or manned
The damage at this time can not, of
course, be estimated, as the full extent of
the storm is not known
The two children killed at Green were
carried about s .Xty yards by the wind and
dashed to the ground, mangled so as TO be
almost unrecognizable. Many cattle and
other Ock were also killed by lightning
The storm only lasted about six minutes at
any one point
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22

Otter Tail and Wilkin counties are pnt as
the only ones in the State where leprosy, or
spedelek, exists There is probably more
OF less of it in every large Norwegian settle
ment TIE disease is not considered conta-
gious among those people, as the regular
leprosy, but is lOathsOme.
James Frnk, a brakeman on the Manitoba
road, shot his wife as she lay iii in bed at
Wellman recently, killing her instantly.
Frink then shot himself. but inflicted only
a slight flesh wound The bullet was ex-
tracted and the murderer lodged in Jail
No cause was known for the deed
Mr. L1wler, of Fond du Lac, Wis, was
walking on board which was stretched
across wheat-bin at Minneapolis the Othe
morning when it broke, precipitating him
seventy ct breaking his legs and spine
and causing instant death
Wlnona has organized an ice rink and
earn val club with a capital stock of 500
900 to build an ice rink and in connection
with it a toboggan slide of one thousand
feet in length
During the present year $S95, 900 worth
of improvements of all kinds were made at
Winona Neariy $3.50 600 was expended
in the erection of monufactor es
The Minnesota Valley Medical Association,
which convened at Mankato recently,
L,
DR.. Charles Berry, New Tim; Vice-Presl-
dents. Drs n. j. Rowe, Minnesota Lake. W.
r. Cullen, Lake Crystal; Secretary, DR. J. H.
James, st Peter; Treasurer, DR.. G. II. Mer-
rift st Peter.
o G.. Merrill, hardware merchant at
Like Benton, made an assignment recently.
Poor collections were said to be the cause.
The liabilities were about 50, 600
The death was recently announced nj 81
Paul of Springer Harbaugh, one OF the two
original direc ors of the Union Pacific rail-
way appointei by President Lincoln
Advices from Duluth say leading logging
firms on the St Louis yer are making
preparations to build railroads through the
great tract of pine there. This action is
taken to avoid the DELAYS of low water and
scarcity of snow. The pine tracts are scarce
ly touched as yet, and nearly 3. 600, 600. 900
feet of timber is standing in the district to
be pierced by the roads.
r. o. Foster. manager during the last sea-
son of the NJ nneapolis baseball team, b S
sold the franchise for the Western League
to W. Z Goodng, of Minneapolis. for 81, 600.
At a meeting of the officers of the st Paul
Carnival Association the o-her day the con-
tract for building the ice-palace was given
out The international snow-shoe, skating
and other races heretofore held in Mon
treal, will be held this season during the
two weeks festivities
The State Dairymen's convention at its
recent session in Minneapolis adopted q
memorial to Congress asking tn { the man
ufacture of fraudulent butter be prohibited.
or that the manufacturers be compelled to
color their product pink. S NJ. Emery was
elected president
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
From WASHINGTON.

DURING November last the value OF ex-
ports of beef. hog and dairy products was
81, O76, $50; ISS,i, 81. $40, 766. For eleven
months enled November 80, 1887, $79,
273 262: IsSG. So. OJO.O49 Dairy Prod
ucts-November, 1857, S6ll .O93. 1856,
S6OS, 67J For eleven months ended No
vember 80. 1857. 80 13j. l45; 1856, 81
ABS. 33l. Beef and Pork Products-No-
vember, IsS7, 81, 400, $50; 1856 So
g62 OIL
The Italian residents of Washington pro-
pose TO present the Government with a
marble bust of GaribaldL
THERE were 253 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 16.h, against OBS the previous seven
DAYS
IT was thought on the 10th that the Terri
tories of DakO.a, Washington, Montana and
possibly Utah would be admitted into the
Union during the present session of Con-
gress.
AT twenty-siX leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81 .UI6, sos 9O3, against Sl,029, PIP, Ill
the previous week As comp lred with the
corresponding week of 1856 the decrease
amounted to 20 per cent
IRE Land Office decided ON the 18th that
religious societies could enter upon one
hundred and sixty acres OF land in the
Indian reservations and hold the same for
TIE promotion OF their work
Mr. LANAR's nominal on for Justice OF
the supreme Court was before the Senate
Judiciary Committee on the 18th. but
action was deferred antil after the holiday
recess
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22

When a compile Of hours after sunrise Dr..
Blake opened his heavy eyes on New Years
morn, they rested at once on framed pOr-
trait hanging against the opposite wall
Where had it come from VINO was it in
tended forg
For a closer view showed the Doctor that
the general contour of the features were his
own 80 also was the blonde mustache. but
here TO his own mind the resemblance
ceased The likeness between himself and
his nephew Paul had often been comment
ed on This picture might have been Paul
with twenty years added TO his age, or him.
self with ten subtracled
With sad smile Doc or Blake read the
inscription on clrd pinned on the frame.
A New Ne-rs' gift for my C-dears erasedl
guardian from his i-affectionateH erased)
ward
1t is plain that Doris forte is not por-
trait painting" he said, with a very audible
sigh And then wondering how he should
introduce the awkward explanation he was
meaning TO make, the doctor went down TO
breakfast
Replying rather curly 10 Mrs Mack's at
fectonate New Years greeting, DR. Blake
looked about the room
Mss Doris not down yetg" he said, with
affected carelessness
Mrs. Mack drew herself mp primly.
Sarah tells me, Doctor, that at sunrise
this morning she let Miss Doris out at the
'front.' door fully dressed for travelling and
carrying large hand sachel She gave no
explanation, but simply said she was going
away for good. and in due time would write
US And from the fact that our milkman
saw Mr. Paul Bake with a young lady who
exactly answers her description getting into
the Boston train at 6:45, l incline TO the
opinion that they have gone on to get mar
RED
DR. Blake, who had himself well in hand.
made no audible comment ON this surpris-
Ing hit of news, which in reality was the
final blow to his vague hopes And Mrs
Muck, tucking tiny, tear-b lotted note ad-
dressed 10 DIR. Paul Blake little further
down in her pocket, noted with inward sat
isfaction that his appetite appeared in no
way impaired by what he had heard
we viii have talk when / come in
from my calls. Mrs Mack, " he said, with his
usual courtesy; but the widow thought she
detected an uudertOne of warmth in his
speech, and her hopes ran higher than
ever
Bob was waiting the doctors appearance
in the Office with manifest impatience It
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
FrFTfETu CONGRESS.


THURSDAY, Dec. 10. Bills were intro
duced in the Senate TO protect employ es
and servants engaged in Interstate
commerce; 10 extend the general land and
mining laws over the Territory OF Alaska;
TO facilitate the settlement and develop
ment of the resources OF Alaska and 10
open an overland commercial route be-
tween the United States. Asiat Russia and
Japan; 10 forfeit lands granted 70 the State
OF Michigan for a railroad from Marquette
TO OntonagOn Mr. Stewart advocated his
bill providing for the issue OF coin certifi-
Gates TO circulate as money. Adjourned to
the 18th The House was not in session
FRIDAY. Dec l6-The Senate was not in
session. In the House n concurrent reso-
luton was adopted providing for the
adjournment OF Congress from December
~ to January 4 resolution of re-
greet over 2e death of Z. ". Robertson, late
a member elect of the Fiftfeth Congress
from Louisiana, was adopted, and as a
mark Of respect the House adjourned until
the 10Th
MONDAY Dec I9-In the senate bills
were introduced 10 require that a resi-
dence Of three years shall be necessary be-
fore an alien can declare his intention TO be-
come a citizen of the United States and OF
two years addition Al before he shall have
Elkhl 10 vote OF hoil ONCE 70 grant pen
siOns TO all Union prisoners OF war confined
in Southern prisons for more than sixty
DAYS; for the collection OF more accurate
statistics Of exports. emigration and immi-
grafton; 10 prohibit the manufacture
and sale of intoxic ting liquors in the
District OF Columbia; TO aid in the estab-
lishment aud temporary support OF COM
mon schools Mr. Sherman gave notice
that after the holidays he would address the
senate on the Presidents message. Mr..
Pugh spoke in favor OF tariff reform. In
the House the Speaker announced the ap-
pOintment of the Committee ON Rules, as
follows: Carlisle. randall, Mills, Reed and
Cannon number of resolutions looking
20 changes in the rules We're offered and re-
ferred
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MICHIGAN.


Governor Luce heartily approves the es-
tab ishment of a course OF manual training
in the Lansing schoo S, and thinks that both
boys and girls should receive instruction
for purposes of physical development as
well as knowledge of handicraft impaired
Ezra Thornton and W {, of Worthwhile
celebrated the ffieth anniversary of Their
wedding recently
Marquette health officer, who investi-
gated into the cause OF malignant diph-
! iberia at st. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, finds
that the germs were brought from Sault
Ste Marie in the wooden dress of a litele
girl whose mother died of the disease there
last spring
Tie State Unitarian Conference at its re-
cent session in Jackson elected Rev Reed
Stuart. of Detroit, president
The State Horticultural Society at its re-
cent sess on in Saginaw elected officers as
follows: President, T. T. Lyon, South Hi
ven; Secretary, Charles w. Garfield, Grand
Rapids; Treasurer 4 NJ Pearsall, Grand
Rapids; Executive Board, T. H. Scott, Of
Ann Arbor, and f. c. Reid, of Allegan
A fire at Pittsford, few DAYS ago de-
stroyed a furniture store, jeweiry store and
TIN shop. Loss, $4,000
The ground around the main engine shaft
of the Calumet and Heeia mine caved in
the other day, and volumes of smoke and
gas came up The ground had settled from
twelve TO fifteen feet
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad has
acquired the Port Huron 4 Northwestern
narrow-gauge system
George Beatty, of Detroit got license
and preacher recently TO marry Miss Lizzie
Doyle, but she fled and married a former
lover, Thomas Renning. wealthy lumber
man
The Northwestern intercollegiate Alumnae
Association has established a fellowship
worth $3.50 year in the Michigan Uni
versity, which is open to women graduates
OF the colleges of the Northwest
Nat Krusk, miner. was capght in lime
stone crushing machine in the Calumet and
Hecla mine the other day and completely
torn to pieces
J. Wilken's saw-milI at Hastings was de-
stroyed by fire the other night Loss,
S3, 900; no insurance
The fifteenth annual session of the State
Grange met at Lansing recently. Worthy
Master Luce in his address deplored the
state of the market for agricultural prod
ucts, urged a modification of the patent
laws, and denounced the manufacture of
oleomargarine. A resolution was adopted
in favor of he Local Option law, and p. edg-
ing the members TO secure the prohibition
of the liquor traffic in their sc eral lOcali-
ties. the report of the treasurer showed
balance in the treasury of about St, 900
Thomas Mars was elected Master.
At Detroit few days ago the wife of DR..
J. b. Book filed suit for divorce and the
next day the case was heard in private, the
WON N, VINO remained vailed, whispering
her story to the judge, who granted her a
divorce